Pharmacy History
‘Indiscriminate sale’ of morphia examined
Victorians battle opium, English pharmacists warn of non-prescription morphine and cocaine, and a brand-new barbiturate hits the market… welcome to May 1905 Our English correspondent reported on an address to …
Flashback Friday: ‘The fight is on’
Pharmacists must hold firm to ensure the survival of the profession’s independence in the face of external threats It’s May 1950, and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy is urging pharmacists …
Flashback Friday: Staff shortages persist
The dearth of qualified pharmaceutical chemists in Australia continues It’s April 1950 and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy is reporting that community and hospital pharmacies are struggling to fill vacancies, …
Flashback Friday: Sly grog, wrongly labelled cocaine cases heard
Was this Melbourne pharmacy really a sly grogger? The AJP tackles a tricky legal case in 1925 Australia may not have experienced Prohibition, but we did suffer from the infamous …
Flashback Friday: No ‘killjoy’ image over cigarettes
It’s the 70s, and the Labor party votes for restrictions on medicines advertising – but doesn’t want backlash over restrictions on tobacco ads “The Australian Labor Party voted at its …
Fallout, flashburn and pharmacy
It’s the 1950s and the pharmacy outlook is bright… possibly too bright, given our concerns over an incipient atom bomb attack In our February, 1955 edition we had some handy …
Flashback Friday: Enemy trademarks and illegible handwriting
World events drew much of our attention in 1915, but pharmacists still took the time to point out one enduring bugbear: their medical colleagues’ handwriting The Australasian Journal of Pharmacy …
‘Gone now are the days when people postponed treatment because of fear of expense’
The Sixties are in full swing and it’s good news all around in pharmacy, as members of the profession stand ready for the metric system In February 1965, the Australasian …
Flashback Friday: ‘compulsory use of poison bottles’ recommended
We take a look at the days when “any one” could sell arsenic-saturated biscuits with no poison warnings It’s January 1905, and the pharmacists of Australia’s youthful Commonwealth have medicines …
Flashback Friday: ‘Gestapo methods in our midst’
“No agreement with the Federal Government as a contracting party is worth the paper on which it is written,” thundered an AJP correspondent in 1945, as shots were fired within …
Flashback Friday: Black heroin and colour TV
Whether you were ready for colour TV or not, we started 1975 with some lurid crime reporting – including on the new scourge of black heroin “The countries which seem …
Flashback Friday: enough ‘wailings and gnashings’ of the teeth!
Snake oil, Prohibition, poisonings and pessimism… we take a look at pharmacy a century past What was happening in pharmacy 100 years ago? We began the January, 1925 edition on …